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fterwards the sultan mounted his horse, and returned
in all haste to his capital, where the first thing he did, as soon as
he alighted, was to command the grand visier to take out a
process against the sultaness's two sisters, and take them and
have them examined and interrogated separately; and
accordingly they were tried and condemned to be quartered;

which sentence was put in execution immediately.
In the mean time, the sultan Khosrouschah, followed by all the
lords of his court, who were then present, went to the door of
the great mosque; and after he had taken the sultaness out of
the strict confinement she had languished under for so many
years, he said to her, with tears in his eyes, and embracing her
in the miserable condition she was then in, I come, madam, to
ask your pardon for the injustice I have done you, and to make
you the reparation I ought to do; which I have begun, by

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